The first part of Bus Rapid Transit will be a 2-mile stretch of Broadway downtown, the Daily News reported.
Trying to ease worsening traffic jams downtown, the city will create a nearly 2-mile, bus-only lane on Broadway this summer, officials said.
The lane will run down Broadway from W. Houston St. to the southern tip of Manhattan.
Along the route, the Department of Transportation will build sidewalk extensions that will serve as passenger loading bays - and shorten the time it takes to pick up and discharge riders, officials said.
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The Broadway bus lane will give bus riders the first glimpse of some of the components of the DOT's larger, $21million project to create "Bus Rapid Transit" routes in the city. The first two of five planned Bus Rapid Transit routes are expected to be unveiled in the fall.
-- Chuck Bennett
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Funny. When I saw all of the stories about the BRT program, my first thought was Broadway south of Union Square. I was walking around Soho and the East Village area on Saturday and the streets were a mess. I think a better solution may just be to ban all passenger cars from the area on weekends, but the city would never do that.